The Building Blocks of Nature

We possess an curiosity towards Pollen and Seeds as an architectural blueprint, what with their diversity of form and complex articulated structures they provide inspiration for creativity and we have taken time to study them using a scanning electron microscope. The following images form part of a body of research carried out using equipment at the Faculty of Science and Health at Staffordshire University. This record of pollen grains and seed samples formed the initial inspiration for ideas and making. Their diversity of form and scale is as diverse as the plants from which they derive and a clear reminder that the building blocks of nature continue to provide a spur for the imagination.